Into which pocket do you place your phone?
Into which pocket do you place your phone?
Despite being right handed, it feels more comfortable to place my phone in my left front pocket. Maybe because having a wallet in my right pocket predates using mobile phones. What feels most natural for you?
Always left front pocket; front right is for keys and such. I am also right-handed, but hold my phone and scroll with my left thumb, while I use my right hand for other touch-tasks on the screen. Always wondered if I was an outlier, too. (_)
Left pocket is for phone. Right pocket is for keys, smokes, lighter.
Front right for my phone, just makes sense when I'm right handed. Front left pocket is my wallet, keys and microfiber cloth. The microfiber cloth is a necessity for glasses!
Gen Z here, I've basically had a phone most of my life besides when I was young, but I didn't have a wallet then either.
Left pocket. I use my right hand for most things but.. answering the phone or checking a message i can do with the left.
This leaves my right hand open to do whatevet. Like pointing, at ugly people.
Right handed. Keep it in my left pocket.
I used to use front right pocket, but then I transitioned, and girl jeans don't really have pockets that can hold a phone T~T
Nice job OP! Not only is this not a stupid question, this is in fact a fantastic question! Kudos to you!
My phone goes in my left pocket, and I usually hold it with my left hand since I use a swipe keyboard to type, and I'm right handed. My front right is for my money clip, which also contains a few important plastic cards. This was a huge change for me. Keeping cash and cards and nothing else. Absolutely liberating to not have a wallet taking up pocket space.
My keys dangle at my right hip.
Context: I'm a man, and only wear shorts or pants with pockets. I also only buy phones that fit easily into my pockets, so never the extra mega ones.
I'm glad to see how many of us there are that have a system!
My bra pockets. I shouldn't need a purse for 3 items just because fashion designers failed basic math.
Nice try, pickpocket.
Right pocket; I’m right handed
Left, despite being right handed. I'm deaf in my right ear, and while I don't make many phone calls these days, but it's a habit that formed in my flip phone days.
I like your question op causes it’s simple but one that will make you think.
For me, I always put my phone on my left front pocket and my keys to my right pocket. I started to do this because when I was young, I played air hockey at the arcades and the puck smashed my right pants pocket which has my phone then. It broke my screen
Nice try pickpocket.
Right handed, left pocket. But I also hold it in my left hand and when these damn things were small enough to be one handed, I used my left
Left front pocket. I’ve kept my keys in front right for most of my life and don’t want to scratch my phone. Actually, left cargo pocket when I can. Roomy, usually buttons or velcro so less risk of losing, less likely to be affected by sitting
Also, I don’t understand people who use their back pocket: aren’t you afraid of breaking your phone by sitting on it? Aren’t you afraid of it falling out of the smaller pocket? Aren’t you afraid of more easily getting robbed?
My purse? Then after that my jacket. I don't use my pants pockets.
Technically none, because I'm a weirdo who uses a belt pouch.
It goes on the right side though as the phone is small enough (Pixel 4a) that I can use it one handed with my dominant right.Left for phone
Right for keys and wallet
Wallet right cargo, phone left front, keys/knife right front, ID left rear. Used to be on my belt to the right at 3 o’clock but that’s where my magazines go now.
Back left pocket. Front pockets feel more linty and my phone is tall so sometimes when I'm walking the phone gets in the way of my leg bending forward.
Fanny pack. Is it just me?
Left from pocket. Wallet goes in right pocket with keys.
Same.
Very interesting reading all the responses, as I am a rear pocket person. Hate the feeling of having things against my thighs when I move.
Though having it in my back pockets does mean I take them out everytime I sit down.
Right front. I only carry a small card wallet so both go in together fine. Keys and other scratchy stuff in the left.
Right handed: phone goes in left pocket, screen usually facing thigh unless it’s hot outside and I don’t want the screen to fog (it gets really humid here in the summer), and the camera down. The reason for this is that I use my phone two handed, mostly because I hate swipe typing and I like having my keys in my right pocket so I can easily use them right handed. I also have my fingerprint reader set up for either hand.
Before smart phones it was keys and phone in right front, wallet in left front. But now it's wallet and keys in right front, phone in left front.
Anyone else wonder if OP is doing research on where to best pickpocket people? lol
Also front left for phone and front right for wallet and keys.
For the phone in left pocket though, only the phone is placed in it to prevent it from getting scratched (even with a screen protector it's annoying), so nothing else goes in there.
Learned that the hard way.
Same here, Left front, or sometimes shirt pocket if I have one.
Front right pocket for phone, front left pocket for keys, back right pocket for wallet if in uncrowded area, front left.
If it's crowded in winter, it all changes. I have a Columbia jacket with zipper pockets on the side and one chest pocket. Phone and keys stay on their corresponding sides (or even still in the pants because the jacket covers my pockets and who wants to steal a six year old cracked LG?), while wallet goes into the chest pocket.
For me it's always the back right pocket. Front left is wallet and keys. Front right is knife, pen, lighter, and chapstick. If i'm ever sitting down I'm usually gonna take my phone out so I never sit on it either.
Left front. Top down to keep lint out of the charge port. Glass inward to (supposedly) reduce RF.
Right front pocket
Front right pocket here. Left is reserved for my wallet and handkerchief.
Right handed, left front pocket, this is the way.
Usually left from pocket. Or back left pocket. I like left. It's opposite from my "main" hand.
It depends on what I'm wearing, whether it has front or back pockets, which hand was holding it last, what I am doing at the time, and whether or not I want to put it in my purse instead.
Bra strap. Most of my clothes dont have pockets that hold it.
Nice try, the pickpocket that I will walk pass tomorrow.
My phone is in my front right pocket because I can take my phone out and use it with just one hand. Wallet and keys in the front left.
Right handed, so right pocket, spun round so the screen faces outward, wallet and keys in the left, or keys on a lanyard thing clipped to me depending on if they're my car keys or work keys that actually go into a door
Picked that habbit up during the "put the lock button on the back" craze and would have constant issues of it vibrating in my pocket from the lock screen button being tapped and my leg barely managing to tap numbers randomly through my pocket
Non-dominant hand holds your phone, so that's the pocket side where your phone should live.
EDIT:
A few people seem to be confused because apparently they use their phone one handed right from the start when it comes out of their pocket. With the size of phones these days i would guess that most people aren't using their phones one handed that way.
Personally I'll use my phone one handed if I'm stationary and after it's fully out of my pocket and securely in my hands, but if I'm moving around it would be drop-city if I just pulled it out of my pocket one handed and started tapping on it.
Right handed.
I have my phone in the front right pocket of my jeans, with some microfibre cloth in the litle watch pouch for my glasses and screens, while my wallet, business cards, keys and mints live on the left front side.
I hold it under my non-dominant armpit when wearing pants with no pockets.
Back left pocket, with my wallet in my back right and its chain attached to my belt loop above my front right pocket. Front right pocket contains a chapstick. Front left is nearly always empty because lady pants front pockets are practically useless.
Phone in front-left, wallet and a hand towel (Tokyo summers are a sweaty, brutal mess) in right-front. Keys clipped somewhere to my belt loop. back pockets usually empty.
Right or left front pocket, I switch every 3 years or so to keep things spicy
Front left is keys. Front right has my boxcutter. Left cargo pocket is phone. Right cargo is for glasses case for shades or umbrella. Rear left pocket, at work or when I'm doing a project has box gloves. Rear right is wallet. My jacket has one cheap leather glove in each front pocket for weather/driving in the cold.
During jacket season, right jacket pocket or left inside pocket if there is one. Outside of jacket season, back right because from pockets in women's jeans are tiny. Purse if I don't have pockets.
Lefty here, I usually stick it in my right front pocket
Right pocket because I use my right hand.
I put my phone in either of my back packets when wearing pants with for pockets. Never front pockets.
I hope to see someone take all of these answers and create sweet graphs with it.
Left for my wallet (which is chained to me) and right for my phone (which is clipped to me)
Though I will occasionally put my phone into my fanny pack. I have to carry one around that to severe diabetes, so I may as well make usage of it if I have a lot to carry.
Right front for phone/wallet combo, left for keys and headphone case, and side leg pocket for the dreaded work phone
Front left. Front right is keys, handkerchiefs and change (in the special smaller pocket-in-pocket thing).
Back right, slim leather wallet. Back left, usually nothing or "clean junk" that I want to throw out soon such as bills, tickets, etc.
I used to be the same, but I had to switch sides when my fat body interfered with the Bluetooth connection of a pair of headphones I had. That really isn't an issue now, but I'm just used to phone on the right side now.
it depends on the pants and how tight fitting they are. if they’re tighter i’ll usually have it in my rear left pocket. occasionally i’ll put it in my front right for easier access.
My pocket, duh.
Front left for phone, screen inwards. Nothing else but phone.
Left interior coat/jacket pocket for phone. I'm in SF, so always wear some kind of coat/jacket.
Right butt pocket if I'm wearing jeans. Front right otherwise.
I'm right-handed, btw.
Left pocket- I have pretty bad carpal tunnel in my right hand so putting it in my left lessens some strain.
Left breast pocket.
If for whatever reason I am wearing a shirt without pockets, left front pocket of pants.
Phone by itself in left front pocket, facing leg. Keys and sundry in right front, wallet in back right, receipts in back left.
Wallet and phone in the right pocket, keys in the left for me.
My headphones' bluetooth receiver is on the right. Bluetooth performs very poorly at passing through the tissue of a human body (I think it has to do with all the water in there), so when I wear my headphones (always), my phone goes in right front pocket to minimize the path of the signal through my body.
(BTW, you should actually try this if your bluetooth devices suck. Position the transmitter and receiver so they don't go through your body. I promise you it improves things a LOT.)
My phone has a wallet case, so it's all on one thing. It all goes in my left front pocket.
If I'm not wearing a sportcoat it goes in my back right pocket. If I am it goes in my inside left.
A month ago I got a murse, my phone goes on it now asking with my wallet and keys and change. I can't go back.
Left pocket. Right pocket has my wallet since before I had a phone. I’m right handed but if using phone one handed, will use my left.
Front right
The phone pocket. IME, pant manufactures put it on the right. If I wear pants without a phone pocket, then left pocket because wallet/keys are in my right pocket. When I use to wear pants without a phone pocket, it was inconsistent what went where. Just tried to keep phone and keys in opposites.
Goes in my left pocket, cause I always hold it in my left hand. That way I can use my right hand to run my apps.
Phone in the front right pocket, wallet in the front left pocket, keys in the back pocket, earbuds in the watch pocket
In a populated area? Front right. Wallet in front left.
Outside a densely-populated area? Likely back right, because that is where my wallet went pre-COVID. It just feels natural, and easy to grab without any squirming.
Left front with small leather wallet (simple insert, non-fold). Dedicate that real-estate only to those two items and have no case on phone and no screen protector. Right front pocket gets all the rougher items: gum, knife, flashlight, POM, lighter, chapstick, keys when needed.
Keys in left, phone in right, wallet in back right
I put my phone in my right pocket and my wallet in my left pocket. I almost never take my wallet out of my pocket so it gets relegated to the less convenient pocket.
The one withy keys. Every time.
Same. Right handed, phone left, keys and wallet right.
Keys are in the left pocket, phone is on the right pocket. Wallet is either in jacket's pocket or right back pocket of my trousers.
My phone is my wallet. It goes in my inside pocket where people aren't going to be able to pick it. I've played Skyrim. I know how pickpocketing works. /joke
I’m an odd one, left back pocket with keys in back right pocket. Although in my defense part of that is because girls pants/jeans typically don’t have front pockets or are so small you can’t put anything bigger than a quarter into them.
Right butt pocket, or in the purse if I'll be sitting down for a while.
Front right pocket for phone. I am interacting with it far more often than my wallet.
Left front for years, so I could grab smaller items like keys and ID out of the right. Once I got a smart phone, I was grabbing it a lot more frequently than my keys, and I switched.
Both my phones are in my right front pocket. I carry way to much crap on a daily basis..
Same exact setup here lmao.
Right pocket phone, left pocket wallet and Miyoo Mini.
Front right pocket for my phone, right back pocket for my wallet and left front pocket for my keys.
